skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How timely. I'm actually starting a challenge for myself to see if I can bootstrap something to at least $5,000 in revenue a month. I've tried and failed many times, but this time, I'm going to force myself to only live off what I can make with this product.

http://vutran.me/blog/desperation.html
Communications of the ACM (Oct'12 issue)
That's a lot of rooms! I have bedroom, a bathroom and a lounge/kitchen.
The donation request doesn't show up if you download Kubuntu. The last I heard Canonical doesn't pay anyone to work specifically on Kubuntu anymore (although Kubuntu users obviously benefit from a great many things Canonical does for Ubuntu). One of the donation categories does include Kubuntu though... Strange.
eBay just copies Pinterest in its redesign.
My current little side project uses about 200-300 MB of database storage. Using Heroku, that would cost (pr month) $9 on their shared postgres database, $10-15 using mongodb, $50 using heroku's dedicated production postgres service, or $125 using redis.

That's quite a difference.
http://www.aosabook.org/en/ffreleng.html
I spent 2 weeks on a Themeforest xhtml/css theme about 3 years ago. It still gives me a 40$ every month. Nothing to brag about but it takes care of my hosting bill :)
Here's a paper from the University of Virginia in 2009 that corroborates the article and goes into more detail - https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:pZStLTKZbWgJ:...

There follows an excerpt from it to give you the gist -

"The strategy adopted by the AMA would be professional to the core. The center of gravity for decision making was altered significantly, and the “mom and pop” feel of past Association decisions was eliminated. This was done in two ways. First, a San Francisco public relations firm, Whitaker and Baxter, was hired to coordinate the anti- health insurance initiative.

As a result, a proactive “National Education Campaign” was designed to make the AMA’s case against the Ewing Report and subsequent national health insurance legislation in Congress At its core, the National Education Campaign would focus on connecting “national health insurance” with “socialized medicine” in the public’s mind.

Second, Morris Fishbein, the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), was removed. Fishbein had been an important voice within the AMA for three decades; he was, however, a reactionary thinker, and his public methods lacked the precision and flair of the new Whitaker/Baxter proposal.

To promote their National Education Campaign, Whitaker and Baxter first went about assembling a war chest. The internal legislative body of the AMA, the House of Delegates, voted in December 1948 to assess each member $25, for the purpose of raising $3.5 million – money that would support the Campaign’s goals.

Within two months, Baxter and Whitaker had sufficient resources (around $1.5 million) to begin implementing their strategic plans, which included “distributing millions of pamphlets, making wide use of the press and radio, mobilizing additional pressure groups against government health insurance, writing letters to congressmen, and organizing speakers’ bureaus throughout the country.”

In addition, the AMA would use physicians themselves as assets; while waiting for their family doctors, patients would be exposed to pamphlets – one of which was titled “The Voluntary Way is the American Way” – that detailed the dangers of compulsory health insurance."
What do you think of Go's approach?
No panic here, but I'm pretty confused by the selection. I would have bet money that sexy nurse costumes are on the least-selling item list.
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Why do Governments need to tax?
omg couldnt agree more, the main images being viewable through the vertically scrolling slit overlay thingy, wtf makes my eyes bleed
Are there still ridiculously high fees associated with selling a product on eBay?

I have something that due to the niche of the product, makes it very hard to sell to anywhere BUT eBay. There are a lot of attempted alternatives in this niche but none provide the instant kind of payment you'd get from using eBay or have the quantity of buyers. It is truly the network effect at work.

What's my point about this? It's that the problem with eBay isn't because it doesn't have a Pinterest-esque style layout. No one really cares about eBay's dotcom style layout, or the fact that it the logo until recently was schizophrenic about it's capitalization. It's because they completely bone the sellers. If you're a seller on eBay, you're constantly juiced on every little single thing. You also have little recourse if a buyer rates you poorly (I guess punish him back by rating him badly too?). It's been a slow methodical shakedown of sellers and quite frankly people are sick of being nickel and dimed to death. So I hope this blows up in their face and that they continue to lose market and mindshare.

And I find it funny that eBay is now promoting that images are the way to go with this layout when for years they nickel and dimed sellers on photos (Is the max 3 without paying? I forget) and the photo quality of those images was always terrible, like someone set JPG compression to 50%
Reductio ad absurdum is a valid form of argument and not a logical fallacy. While the argument doesn't prove or disprove anything, it can show inconsistency. For example one person might say "I think taking the middle ground is always a good thing" and one might reply "So the middle ground between Hitler and Stalin is good then?", if the first person were to say "no" he would have exposed an inconsistency in his logic, rendering his first statement all but useless.
Food On My Dog
We're considering entering the wedding business with an app. Would your wife consider telling us what she thinks of it? If yes, let me know (see my profile for email), it would be great!
So rich people never deserve sympathy? It's got to hurt when people close to you, whom you see as peers, make off like bandits whilst you're left relatively a lot worse off.

"Life's not fair", bellum omnium. But the reason to talk about fairness is that it's something to strive for and insofar as we can make things fairer (like through SEC regulation) we should.

Nobody's saying the losers here are catastrophically equivalent to a war zone. But worthy of sympathy? Sure. Just because you're rich doesn't mean things can't suck for you, subjectively.
IIRC it's just using websockets to sort of proxy http requests. They still go through a central server.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366555

Also, when PeerConnection gets its Data api implemented this will be more literally possible. You could connect to someone with minimal routing from a server and then serve basically whatever peer to peer.

You know, your friends could share metadata among themselves and a webapp in your browser could provide you real time access to the files associated with that metadata when they [or their server] is online, etc.
No One Scans QR Codes (apart from the thousands of people who do)
You may try to contact zankyou or some other website that manage wedding list. I used them for my wedding and they also promote other products. I think they might be interested into your product. Their users are the perfect fit for you : engaged and with an inclination for technology.
Kevin,

Bare in mind this article was written as a follow up on another article that amply describes the concept of statistical power.

I think a comparison between the two is justified. Both are about the use of additional information to enhance decision making and both are obviously difficult to grasp.

There is a conceptual resemblance between the problem many scientists had a long time ago understanding the dynamics of the probabilities involved in the Monty Hall Problem and the problem many marketing data analists have nowadays trying to understand the dynamics of statistical power when designing experiments.

The practical resemblance between the two is that failing to apply the logic behind the Monty Hall Problem will make you throw away half of what you could have had. Not applying the logic of statistical power makes many data analysts and thus organizations throw away half the knowlegde they could have had.

Apart from the resemblance between the two puzzles, the practical consequences of such misconceptions are quite worrying to say the least. It’s for that reason I make these efforts to explain the matter.

Regards,
Kees
Good blog post.

Concerning point 3:

"Probably the most daunting question for projects without any design lead that has the trust of the team is, how do the devs know if the proposed design is correct? Without that trust, bugs quickly devolve into nasty arguments. How you build that trust has been the subject of entire books. But the question remains, who and how do you approve a mockup? The code review process works great for just that… code."

Developers also have nasty arguments about what code is correct/the better one etc. ;-)

So this argument also should in principle apply to developers - but developers don't seem to have any problem about that point. I don't know whether the reason is simply that developers have less a problem with conflicts?

But nevertheless: there are well-established principles to judge which code/software architecture is better (elegance, smallness, extendability etc. (all of these can be judged rather objectively) - which role these play, depends on the project). I think it would help project leaders if you suggested a similar process for judging design decisions. Just an idea. If this is a bad idea of me, suggest a better one.
This logo looks like a first iteration in their redesigning process.
You still have to be pretty pessimistic to think taxes will rise faster than your rate of return!
I've actually created something similar myself, that does support streaming and blob serving.

I haven't officially 'announced' it yet, as I was planning to make a nice drag and drop Chrome FileSytem API way of setting up a website and hadn't got around to it. So it's still fairly immature (although I think it supports most of what the linked system does).

If you're interested, it's here: https://github.com/kybernetikos/yobets

I've designed it to run on heroku, and it sets up virtual hosts for each client. I have a lot of ideas for how this could be used, here's two: 1. using in browser encryption stream your location acquired by the geo location api from your mobile phone but only to your friends who have the right key or 2. any time you want to serve a large file to a bunch of friends, just fire up one of these servers on heroku (first process is free) and serve it...
Fuck, I paid $1850 for a 650 sqft one-bedroom in Mountain View. That was before they tried to raise the rent after the Google expansion, I hear they posted it at $2400 after I left.

That said, London is more expensive.
> Well, a 60W/h battery would, in theory, power it for one day. I'd use something like an old motorcycle batter. (12V 10Ah) Which might run for 2 days continuous.

I do this currently with a raspberry pi in the front of my backpack, using a 4500mAH lithium ion battery I bought off Amazon. Works great. It gets about a 12 hour charge so far, but I haven't really been keeping careful track of battery life.
Similarly with vim, I don't know most of the whizbang vim command combinations and don't use it much outside of short console edits, but gvim with its syntax highlighting + splits(created and selected with a mouse) + lots of plugins (mostly installed with pathogen):minibuffexplorer + ctags + tagbar is a fairly useful combination without much custom configuration.
I want to be able to lend books, but that's about it.

> o physically robust (I've cracked three (3) screens)

Yeah, but as long as Amazon's willing to replace it free each time I don't really mind, and they have been so far.

> extended reading time

Were you using it for just reading? With internet turned off? I know javascript-heavy pages absolutely kill my kindle's battery, but if you're just reading it should be able to handle 10 days fine.

> o random-access speeds/location

Not something I ever want or need.

> o support for color.

No, no, a thousand time no. Keep it black and white so that the focus is where it should be, on the content.
It's unfortunate that you cherry-pick Zynga as representatives of "non-creatives".
> Should be a format that can be grep'd, made into PostScript, DejaVu, etc. Versatile. ASCII works well for that. Open, non-proprietary format.

Org Mode.

http://orgmode.org/
A calendar is basically a meta to-do list with reminders and deadlines.

Most people using calendars for this purpose don't realize that they are actually using to-do lists.
And to add to what Patrick said, via his long tail SEO optimization strategies the site gets a spike of traffic (starting soon!) that actually bring in these BCC sales.
> "Whenever I make a todo list, I forget it and find it weeks later with some items completed and the rest have turned unimportant."

I empathize...
However, with the introduction of Apple Reminders app on the Mac, and it's seamless, icloudy, automagical sync across iPhone / iPad, plus geofencing, I have found that a) my list is always "in my face" and b) it's actually proving quite effective... mostly because of "a".

This might sound like hyperbole, but I think Reminders on iOS/Mac (ok, and Evernote) is the single best thing to hit productivity in a long, long time.

Edit: I also found that having specific instructions plus context in the task item goes a long way in making lists actionable and not a chore... a la GTD.. for example: "@home - call AT&T at 555-1212 and increase broadband bandwidth" or... "@work - read rev C of PRD and send comments to Bob""
What is it really like to visit Silicon valley?
I see no reason to not strive for more, but for the most part I disagree.

However, if they really wanted to advance ebook readers instead of just enjoying their dominant position and branching into androids tablets and phones, they ought to try to push the envelope.

Frankly, if I could legally get textbooks and have random access, color and better pen support... I would be so, so keen. I think there are education opportunities as well with good pen options and text books.

Why can't you buy your third grader a Kindle and have their math book, math workbook/worksheets, answers, tutorials, everything in their hand? The technology more or less exists for this.
FWIW, I have experienced this in all my real life work experiences too. Dev+staging before production always appeared to catch exactly the same bugs as any additional number of steps in between.

I guess people who are willing to run aurora would still run beta, while people who didn't run beta are likely not running aurora either.
The additional step just splits the testers in two areas.
I can see a lot of use for this for product reviews on sales sites. It would have to default to a static image first though.

Great work.
If there are no other explanations that fit the data that anyone has come up with, then fine. But I would not personally be particularly convinced by a simulationist interpretation until I thought that the evidence had been repeatedly tested in a fairly wide variety of ways over a long period of time. For me it is one of the ideas that the phrase "Extraordinary claims must be backed up with extraordinary evidence." was built for.
Maybe it's actually white rather than r/g/b close together? I can see that being the sort of thing that would make things look different in a way you couldn't consciously explain.
Does that mean you also haven't heard of TheVerge (Joshua's new site)? Because it's probably the best tech news site out there right now (not yet the biggest though).
eBay have ridiculously restrictive seller limits. I could probably be doing 5+ times the sales volume that I do now if I could list as much as I wanted to. I understand being cautious with new sellers but I don't see the logic of drip feeding sellers more limit after they have say 500 feedback that is all or close to all positive.

Amazon take 15% but let you list as much inventory as you want, they will likely restrict your account until some feedback comes in but after a few weeks this is lifted.

So amazon makes way more money off us and is a lot easier to manage. One of eBays problems I guess is that in some ways they are still rooted in the traditional model of small personal sellers and don't support big sellers that well.
Real estate - I used to own two flats, and get $200-$300 from each one of them. I recently sold one though - I think I can make a better use of the money by other means.
iPhone/iPad apps - I did two or three successful apps, right now they bring in $20-$40 daily. The last time I touched/promoted any one of them was last December, and the sales are quite steady now.
I bought some S.DICE shares ( http://polimedia.us/bitcoin/mpex.php?mpsic=S.DICE ) @0.0032, spent 800 BTC on them I think. Got ~20BTC from dividends first month, ~5BTC dividends the second. It's very risky, but there is some potential for growth there.

All in all I get ~1200 USD of passive income which would be considered an average pay in Poland. I've got a startup on top of that which brings a lot more though.
yep, standard emulators are so bad I use my Nexus 7 to test apps. Even running unit tests
Indeed. With some sort of open source plan, you could get improvements very quickly.

Two obvious ones that spring to mind:

- make the top legs loose so that they swing down when the bed goes up

- cover the base of the bed with something (fabric, a wooden panel or a whiteboard), so that it looks more like furniture when it's up, and not the bottom of a mattress.
You will anyway, either in your brain on paper. Except that on paper you are more organized, you can see far and accomplish a lot with little stress.
Should be significantly better. On the Kindle the light is equal all over the screen. On the Nook it isn't.
>> I run a pretty hectic web development business.

and

>>I'm turning 40 in 10 days and never in my life have I had a dairy or an a to-do list of some kind.

I really feel sad you underwent so much pain for no reason, while you could have easily avoided it.

The point is pain when experienced for a long term becomes normal and doesn't feel like pain anymore. Looks like that is what happened in your case.
This further reinforces how Yegge's recent "software political axis" rant was wildly inconsistent. His characterization of Clojure was "highly conservative" based in part on the best practices avoiding macros when possible, unlike "liberal" languages including Common Lisp.

Meanwhile in his own company's coding style for Common Lisp states very similar best practices regarding macros -- they should be used "sparingly and carefully", "You must never use a macro where a function will do.", etc. The whole macros section basically reads as a list of well thought out reasons against using macros when writing code that other people will have to maintain.

Yegge: "I trust that if you know anything about Lisp, your blood is basically boiling at this point." Really? Well then maybe the google CL team doesn't know lisp or otherwise are looking for novel ways to escalate their collective blood pressure.
Setting up an ecommerce shop and let my friend runs it.
Reminds me of Opera Unite[0], where you could build services available externally in HTML and JavaScript. It even has NAT traversal. It never gained much traction, and I believe Opera no longer develops Unite.

[0]: http://unite.opera.com/overview/
So we should do away with all regulation then? That way there's nothing left for the powerful to co-opt? (I'm sure that there's nothing left to stop them either is inconsequential, as the marketplace or something will just magically save us from that, I mean if you don't like working for 40 years and then being left for dead you can always get another job. Anyway we can sort out the details later, uh, after the election.)

This is rubbish. Plenty of nations (i.e. all first world nations) have implemented national schemes of some sort, and none of them suffer from the stuff that you read about coming from the right's bullshit machine. Maybe you're right though, maybe the fact that the US is one of the most corrupt nations on Earth and that its citizens are remarkably comfortable with this fact, means they can't do health care. That's got nothing to do with the concept of nationalized health care and definitely not with regulation in general, but is rather a consequence of an irresponsible citizenry and their terrible social organization.
No offense, but you should get someone to fix the English, I was immediately turned off.
So anyway if your data needs to be composed to be served, you are not in good waters. -- antirez

Perfect! This sentence puts an end to SQL vs NoSQL holy wars. There's no silver bullet. But we 'all' knew that already :)
QRmovie puts adaptive, animated QR codes in film
You should split test some NFL jersey e-mail submit offers from CPA networks, instead of Adsense.

I bet you will make way more money from those 1,000 daily uniques with a good jersey e-mail submit.
Instgram was $300M + 22M * FB, so only ~$700M today, $550M at your valuation.
Sometimes that "choice" is simply to live indoors and eat meagre meals. Oh, and perhaps to pay for the electricity to run the computer, which I suppose could be seen a s optional -- but saving that little bit of money sort of obviates the value of Ubuntu.

(Oh, and in case you were hoping to read this as typical bleeding-heart liberal craptrap, I live in 80 square feet and use a computer that is looking forward to the coming Core2 family of processors. IDE drives and what's a DDR? Is that like RamBus?)
On the other hand, using a higher lever language and ready-made code can mean than someone else has already implemented all those optimizations you would never implement yourself.
wget example.com/some_script.sh
chmod +x some_script.sh
./some_script.sh

is missing one very important step...

wget example.com/some_script.sh
chmod +x some_script.sh
$EDITOR some_script.sh

Only if it all looks sane/safe/sensible would I consider doing:-

./some_script.sh
I think it's important that they realised just quite how large the demand is for this to happen.
A common misconception. http://lesswrong.com/lw/q1/bells_theorem_no_epr_reality/
I'm not sure I understand/agree the point about "iteration over recursion". One of my favorite aspects of Lisp is the recursive approach to writing functions. It's still possible to write recursive functions that don't rely on a specific compiler's optimization:

(defun sum (numbers)
(labels ((helper (todo ans)
(if (null todo)
ans
(helper (cdr todo) (+ ans (car todo))))))
(helper numbers 0)))

I hope that this is what the author meant with "iterative" approach, because it is recursive by most standards.
I wish there was an updated DX available. I like my old one. Papers are perfectly readable at this size, it is possible to zoom in to see details in graphs, and carrying around the equivalent of 100 lbs of reference books (that are searchable!) is amazing.

The only drawback is the slow page turn. I usually end up placing a bookmark on any page I think I might want to flip back to as I'm reading. It's annoying.
Facebook now allows users to promote posts for visibility
"Not compatible with Linux" :(

Does anyone know whether this is planned for the near future?
Without TCO, doesn't your function overflow the stack, given that "numbers" is long enough? By iterative I think they mean the use of "loop" or "iterate".
Even countries with irresponsible citizenry and terrible social organization often manage some form of nationalised healthcare though, so that can't be it. I'm betting on it just being a side effect of making bribery, sorry, lobbyists donating to campaign finance, a respectable part of the political process.
Didn't know about this one. Thanks!
The scrolling is lagging as hell on my laptop (Core Duo 1.6)
Do you mean when you got the idea to start?